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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

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I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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It is always the secure who are humble.

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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

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With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

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